Chapter 2: Sirius's Will
Harry was awakened only after a couple hours of fitful sleep by a gentle hand shaking his shoulder. Harry opened his exhausted eyes to see Hermione sitting on the edge of his bed while Ron stood with at his feet. Harry stifled a yawn as he stretched and rubbed the sleep from his eyes.
"Morning," Harry grumbled as he reached for his glasses on the bedside table.
"Morning mate, mum wanted us to wake you. She wants to make sure you've eaten a proper meal before we all head to Diagon Alley." Ron stated apologetically.
"Besides there is something we wanted to tell you as well," Hermione stated as she nervously fidgeted with the imaginary lent on her jeans.
Harry looked at his friends curiously. He had noticed when he first arrived at the headquarters that the pair had been acting sort of awkward towards each other. He also remembered how he found the pair huddled close together in a whispered conversation when he returned from the loo, only to see them suddenly jump apart and attempt to hide their blushed faces when they noticed his return.
"Relax Hermione, I think I know." Harry chuckled. Ron and Hermione both let out a sigh of relief as he continued, "About bloody time too I say. I thought I would have to draw it out in a picture for the two of you this year."
Ron laughed as he took a seat next to Hermione, "See 'Mione told you he knew."
Hermione smiled brightly as she gave Ron a peck on the cheek and headed towards the door, "Well good now that's done, breakfast?"
"Absolutely, I'm starving." Ron stated.
Hermione gave him an exasperated look as Harry chuckled, "When aren't you starving mate?"
The trio made their way down to the kitchen were Mrs. Weasley was already occupied setting large platters of food onto the table. The trio joined an already full table and began piling food upon their plates. Harry who hadn't had a decent meal since his departure from Hogwarts dug into his food with excitement, which was noticed by Hermione and the Weasleys. Mrs. Weasley happily placed a large platter of bacon on the table next to him, which he took a hearty serving of.
"So the Headmaster is your grandfather huh?" Ron asked while shoveling food into his mouth.
"Yeah I suppose so." Harry answered while Mrs Weasley and Hermione glared at Ron with disapproval of his eating habits.
Hermione broke her glare from Ron and gave Harry a small smile, "Well at least now with the Headmaster being your grandfather maybe I wont have to work so hard to get you to keep up with your studies. Though I will still have Ron to look after."
Harry and Ron shot her a glare as Ron made the effort to swallow his mouthful of food before quietly grumbling to himself about house elves. Mrs. Weasley overhearing a few of his comments swiftly smacked him upon the back of his head and began berrating him for his study habits. Harry grimanced for Ron as he watched him wilter under his mother's tongue lashing. Even Hermione had enough sense to flash Ron an apologetic look once Mrs. Weasley returned to the stove.
Soon they were joined by the remaining Weasleys and Remus as they all began to help themselves to some breakfast while they waited for the Headmaster. Remus took the seat next to Harry and the pair began to discuss quidditch with Ron. Ginny and Hermione meanwhile were having a hushed conversation while intermintently giggling and glancing towards Harry and Ron.
"Alright you lot go and make sure your ready yoursevles before we go, and Harry dear please comb your hair." Mrs Weasley stated as everyone had finished eating and she sent the dishes into the sink where they began to wash themselves.
"Why?" Harry asked the Weasley matriach. Harry had known the Weasleys for years now and he couldn't remember a time when he was directed to comb his hair before. "Mrs. Weasley you know my hair never comforms to what most think is a tidy style. Blame my father if you must."
"Be that as it may young man, I will not allow you to go out looking like that." Mrs. Weasley scolded as the others in the room began to chuckle which confused Harry even further.
"You heard her cub go comb that mess of hair." Remus stated while trying to keep a stoic face unsucessfully as the corners of his mouth frequently twitched.
Grumpily Harry left the room and stomped upstairs to waist some time on his hair. The others remained in the kitchen and let out their laughter once he had left. Mrs Weasley then turned upon the twins and gave them one of her famous glares.
"Hold off on that Molly, it wasn't Fred or George." Remus advised with a miscevious smile. Mrs. Weasley was about to start into him for his behavior and the twins were about to begin question him which he halted with a raised hand. "Wait for it. Right about now."
Just as Remus had finished talking came a frustrated cry of anger and shock. Which caused the occupants in the room to break out in a fresh wave of laughter, including Mrs. Weasley. Quickly there after Harry rushed in with his hair pointing straight up in large spikes, the tips of which were Slytherin green, his wand in hand. The laughter quickly dried up as Harry began to approach the twins with blazing eyes.
"Easy there mate...," George stated nervously.
"It wasn't us." Fred finished as the pair began to cower behind their mother.
Harry search the room with his blazing emerald globes and noticed the nervous look in everyone but one person.
"You!" Harry snarled as he approached the only person in the room with a smirk on their face. "Why you mangy..."
Harry left his last sentence incomplete as he noticed the werewolves eyes dart between his face and his wand as he approached him. Remus gave Harry his best apologetic look and stammered, "Sorry Harry I just figured with whats going on today we all could use a laugh."
"Oh you did, did you." Harry stated narrowing his eyes but was interrupted with the arrival of Dumbledore.
"Good morning all," Dumbledore greeted as he walked into the room. He glanced stopped on Harry and began to alternated between his face and his hair. He finally broke his gaze from Harry and noticed the wand in his hand and Remus's nervous stance.
"Harry my boy while I do like the green don't you think it would be prudent to comb your hair, I am sure you want to be presentable when were are out and about. You must hurry as we need to be going." Dumbledore stated with mirth as the twinkle in his eyes shined brightly. ith a frustrated growl Harry stormed out of the room and Dumbledore turned his attention to Remus.
"You should probably be on guard Remus," Dumbledore smiled, "My grandson has become fairly imaginative with settling scores, as I am sure Mr. Malfoy can attest to."
Remus looked at the Headmaster and gulped loudly which caused chuckles to errupt from everyone in the room. The twins louder than the rest as they approached Remus and George stated. "The Headmasters right Remus. Harry can be downright scary sometimes."
"Quite right George," Fred agreed, "One of the reasons why we never pranked him. We do value our lives and next to our mother thers no one we... well lets just say we agree with the Headmaster, Harry is quite imaginative."
A short while later the group found themselves all seated at a large table in Gringotts. They were joined there by Professor Snape, the Tonks family and Draco with his mother. The pair entered the room with stiff uptight postures while sending glares to the other occupants of the room. Draco took the time to sneer at Harry, "What are you doing here Potty?"
"Shouldn't I be asking you that ferret?" Harry snarled in returned as he was still a little sore about Remus's prank.
"My mother is a Black, so naturally..."Draco began pompously but was interrupted by Ginny who had murmurred something about a stick.
"I am sorry what was that Weaslette?" Draco sneered, "I am sure you Weasley's are here in hopes to receive a few galleons to hopefully be able to actually purchase a wardrobe actable for purebloods, even though you associate with some questionable characters."
Malfoy finished speaking while directing his final comment towards Hermione with a look of disgust, which enraged Ron who jumped from his seat and was about to lauch himself across the table and was only stopped by his fathers firm grip on his shoulder. "Easy there son. We wont lower to his standard especially today."
Ron turned his glare of hatred away from Draco and gave his father a nod of understanding and retook his seat just as a pair of goblins entered the room.
"Hello everyone my name is Ranjoks, I will be reading the will of one Sirius Black." The goblin informed while taking a seat at the head of the table. "Okay first lets make sure everyone is here."
The goblin then began calling out names of everyone there except for the Malfoys. Once he had completed reading the names out the goblin looked curiously at Draco and his mother, "and you two would be..?"
Narcissa looked at the goblin pointedly and stated importantly, "This is my son Draco Malfoy and I am Narcissa Malfoy nee Black."
"Well I am sorry to inform you, that you were not invited to this reading. How did you find out about it." The Ranjoks asked.
Narcissa stated, "Well I assumed as I am still a member of the Black family I was informed through a close friend."
Ranjoks looked furious, "I'm sure you were, well now I must ask you to leave, as Mr. Black didn't leave anything for either of you in his will and requested that the will only be read to those on the list I have here."
"Thats ridiculous, as the last members of the Black family the Black's fortune would be left to us," Draco stated seething at the goblins disrespect towards his mother.
Tonks cleared her throat and stated, "Your not the only members of the Black family. I and my mother are also members of the family."
"Hardly your mother was disowned for marrying a filthy..." Draco began but was again silenced this time by Dumbledore.
"Mr. Malfoy I am sorry but did Ranjoks ask you and your mother to leave or not?" Dumbledore stated firmly.
"Come along Draco lets go find more suitable company," Narcissa stated as she avoided the eyes of everyone and dragged her angry son out of the room.
Ranjoks began as soon as the door closed behind the Malfoys. "Alright lets begin shall we."
I Sirius Orion Black leave this as my last will and testimate. To all of you who are listening today, I am sorry I have left you and I hope that the reason I am no longer there is because I went out fighting the good fight, and not because I died of boredom from being kept at headquarters like a common criminal. I will miss each of you but I dont want anyone mourning me, I spent most of my life pranking others in hopes of bringing more laughter to the word that for the most part been shrowed with darkness.
To the Tonks family I would like to offer you the most sincere apology on behalf of the entire Black family and an offer for you to return to the family, if you would like. I am also leaveing 100 thousand galleons to you no matter what your choice is. Andromeda, cousin I have missed the time we spent together as kids. I am glad I had the chance to get to know your daughter, she reminds me a lot of you. She's even as clumsily as you were at her age.
To Remus, the last remaining maurader. I will miss you dearly my brother. I hope you never forget all the good times we had together, and I wish you would stop trying to hide your feelings for Tonks. It's not working we all know hehe. You deserve happiness in life Moony. I leave you with 50 thousand galleons to do as you will with. It should help you to at least buy some decent robes.
To Professor Dumbledore I leave you something very dear to my heart, but it will be mentioned later. I also leave to you 50 thousand galleons to assist with the war efforts. Thank you for being a great mentor and friend.
To the Weasley family and Miss Hermione Granger I want to thank each of you for accepting Harry and brining him into your family. To all of your I leave 200 thousand galleons to split evenly amongst yourselves. To Ron and Hermione I leave 50 thousand galleons each. Thank you all for being true friends and family to Harry.
To Severus Snape, I leave you nothing of monitary value. I leave you my most heartfelt apology. I had a lot of time in Azkaban, and while locked up at the headquarters to think of things. I know James and I tormented you as children. I realized how cruel it all was and I am sorry. I hope you can forgive us all and stop letting your hatred diminished and find some happiness in your life. I know we could never have been friends while I was alive but theres always the next great adventure after life.
To my godson, my dear Harry. I leave you everything that I own that was not given to the others. I have a few requests though. As I am sure Professor Snape would be reluctant to accept anything from me, I want you to inform him that the Black family had quite the collection of ingredients and equipment for potions brewing and would be greatly honoured if he would accept any of it. Its all set up in the basement of the headquarters. I love you Harry and I am glad I got to know you even for the small amount of time we had together. I wish you all the happiness in life that your parents, Remus, Snape, and I didn't have the opportunity to have. Your parents would be incredibly proud of the man you are becoming as am I. This last bit of news I am afraid as knowing you the way I do you will most likely become incredibly angry and find some way or another to bring me and your parents back just to curse us. Well I leave you in the guardianship of your grandfather. He was your father's mother's father. I leave guardianship of you to your grandfather Albus Dumbledore. I do this under a few conditions. One he does not force you to return to the Dursleys ever again. Two the pair of you give a honest try of being a real family and enjoy life. If both of this conditions cannot be met then I wish you to be emanciated so that you can find your own happiness. Harry keep your friends close and dont be afraid to love. It's your greatest strength. All and do not forget about your studies.
Don't mourn me my friends. I will miss all of you, yes Severus even you. I will miss the family we have all become together in the last few years the most. But I look forward to seeing each of you in the afterlife. Just not too soon.
With love,
Lord Sirius Orion Black.
There wasn't a dry eye in the room, Ranjoks too wiped tears from his face when had completed reading. Severus chuckled lightly which surprised everyone. Upon noticing them staring at him he chuckled all the more, "Who would have thought Sirius out of anyone would be the one to tell Potter about studying."